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To: Tony Viola who wrote (99559)	2/20/2000 6:19:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) of 186894

Tony and Intel investors: This article seems to be saying that Willamette has the potential to hold the highest benchmark scores for Floating Point as well as Integer, currently held by CuMine. aceshardware.com "Intel is concentrating on ISSE2: No less than 144 new instructions. If Intel can rally enough support behind ISSE2, the Willamette FPU performance will blow everybody else out of the water, as the ISSE2 FPU performance is vastly superior to the x87 in single precision. A dual ISSE2 unit at 1.4 GHz, the clockspeed at which the fastest Willamette will ship (Q4 2000), would boast a peak of no less than 2 x 4 (SIMD) x 1.4 GHz = 11.2 billion floating-point operations per second (or FLOPS)! The x87 FPU would deliver a measly 1.4 GFLOPS peak. For comparison, if AMD manages to introduce a 1.2 GHz Athlon by the time the Willamette ships, the x87 FPU will peak at 2.4 GFLOPS, while the 3DNow! units will peak at 4.8 GLOPS. All of these numbers are theoretical, of course, but it gives you an idea of how powerful such a SIMD implementation can be. " EP

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